OREANDA-NEWS. The Ministry of Health of Russia allowed to change the format of post-registration studies of the coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V, and volunteers will no longer be injected with placebo. This was announced on December 23 by the head of the Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Alexander Gintsburg.

“The Ministry of Health has allowed to stop, it seems, on yesterday or today, the recruitment [Of volunteers for the introduction of placebo. – Ed.] due to the fact that everything is proven there, and the pandemic is coming and the placebo is not good at all,” Gintsburg said. The specialist noted that he would identify all those who received a placebo and vaccinate them, but it is not yet known whether this option is permissible.

On December 14, it became known that the effectiveness of the coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V is 91.4 %, while in relation to severe cases of COVID-19, the effectiveness of the medicine is 100 %.